Help Us Eliminate the Twenty-Four Month Medicare Waiting Period

The Medicare Rights Center is working to eliminate the Medicare
coverage waiting period and has recently embarked on a national
media project to bring the issue to light.

Our goal is to raise awareness of the lasting damage caused by
the 24-month waiting period by recording the personal
experiences of individuals who:

* are currently in the 24-month Medicare waiting period, or

* recently got Medicare coverage after having gone through the
  two-year wait.

If you or someone you know might be willing to participate in
this project by sharing their story please contact me at my
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For Medicare coverage to begin, Americans with disabilities
must wait 24 months from their first Social Security disability
income payment, which is five months after Social Security
deems them disabled.

Medicare provides an invaluable safety net for Americans with
disabilities, providing good, affordable health coverage when
the private insurance market turns its back. Let us work
together to make this health coverage available as soon as
people need it, rather than 24 months later. Help us eliminate
the 24-month Medicare waiting period.

Heidi Kreamer
Communications Assistant
VOICE: 800.333.4114 ext. 33
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